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- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Author: Andrei Hagiu Publication: Chap. 3 in The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, edited by Martin Peitz and Joel Waldfogel. Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
trouble but project an authenticity welcomed by many voters. He is keeping his marketing powder dry until after Labor Day, gambling that Clinton's August advertising blitz will not yet have sealed his fate.Trump is clearly more...
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by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Britain has shamefully taken almost none, but the Poles, Hungarians, Romanians, and others who settled in Britain under rules of the European Union that allow the free movement of labor inside the EU. Hundreds of thousands of Britons live...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and organizational challenges ahead. He created a new narrative for the company in the era of Big Data, putting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
The customer rewards cards that clutter wallets and clog key chains of many a shopper may soon be no more, as retailers move from physical to digital (read: mobile apps) forms of loyalty program member identification. It's a smart...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Worker rights advocates seeking...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
influence from those valued for non-social reasons. The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Publication:In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation,...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
negotiator who wants to be fair from the start ensure that his or her counterpart will be reasonable as well? The authors propose the final-offer arbitration challenge, which leverages an approach first applied in labor negotiations in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
was a proprietary managerial accounting system based on Will, a currency that enabled internal market transactions. At DISCO, every hour of labor and every good was associated with a price in Will. Employees were expected to act like...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance algorithms are at the...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
operation and to understand the tradeoffs between customer service and labor utilization. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/618062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-104 Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files,...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Levine-Toffel%20The%20Compass%202014-07-02a_151d5c1a-4fe0-4d2a-90f8-54a82b5bb4a6.pdf October 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—The data on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
telecommuting, gender-related pay gaps, a household division of labor that still saddles women with a disproportionate share of caretaking chores, and the question of religious expression in the workplace. Read the article:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne